Chocolate Covered Cherries

Creating Dilettante Chocolate Covered Cherries is a craft we have mastered at Dilettante. Dilettante's Chocolatier family brought this candy making method to the Pacific Northwest many years ago introducing the dragee method of confections to the west coast. Whole dried cherries are liberally covered in two types of rich gourmet milk chocolate. At Dilettante, we use premium Northwest dried cherries and coat the fruit twice using milk chocolate containing 38.47% cacao and white chocolate.

Using the dragee (pronounced draw-jay) method of candy coating, dragee pans are special revolving kettles used to coat the premium cherries in Dilettante's gourmet chocolate blends. Revolving pans coat the chocolate cherry confections perfectly and evenly resulting in a luxurious confectionary treat. The candies are finished in a cherry red coating making these chocolate cherry candies both a feast for your eyes and your taste buds.

Dragees are chocolate covered candy made in special revolving kettles. The term dragee is French in origins and describes the method in which we coat our dried fruits, nuts, and espresso beans. Dilettante chocolate covered dragee candies use fruits and nuts. Chocolate covered fruits and nuts are chocolate covered candy free from compound coating and only use the highest quality chocolate. These dragees are the chocolate connoisseur's ultimate snack.